Mysterious Sanxingdui Ruins

Sanxingdui Ruins (Three Stars Pile) is located in Nanxing Town of Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, China. A local peasant found some exquisite jade wares while digging the ditch in spring of 1929.

Archaeologists found two large-scale sacrificial pits of Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C. – 1046 B.C.) in 1986. Thousands of rare treasures were dug out. This made a stir in the world. It was praised as the world “The ninth wonder of the World”.

Archaeological experts dug out large numbers of strange bronze images and animals from Sanxingdui Ruins. There aren’t any characters on these bronze wares. All these bronze wares were sacrificial appliances. There were some sacrificial appliances of ancient Mayan and ancient Egypt in Sanxingdui Ruins; furthermore, some bronze statues looked like modern Occidentals. Therefore, some experts inferred Sanxingdui Ruins was once the pilgrimage center of the world.

More than 5000 seashells were excavated in Sanxingdui Ruins. These seashells came from the Indian Ocean through appraising. There were 60 ivories that came from Thailand in Sanxingdui Ruins. There was a priceless treasure in Sanxingdui Ruins — Gold Walking Stick; carving some patterns such as fishes and arrows on the Gold Walking Stick. The experts were unable to decode these symbols. Maybe great Chinese civilization should be mysterious.